Diane Hipp

Diane Hipp C.P.S., is a Certified Prevention Professional and a certified School Counselor with over thirty years of experience in the field of prevention. Her arenas of work have included elementary and secondary prevention education, parenting education, prevention curriculum development and community substance abuse prevention program management.

Diane is the co-author and program developer of “Kelso’s Choice” a conflict management curriculum for elementary children. The curriculum is being implemented throughout the United States and in 13 foreign countries. The “Kelso’s Choice” DVD has recently received a 2012 Communicator Award a 2012 Telly and a 2012 Omni Award. In September 2012 her latest curriculum will be released “Building Character With Kelso”. This elementary curriculum will focus on interactive creative ways to build good character traits such as; responsibility, honesty, respect, fairness and caring. Diane is the lead trainer for “Kelso’s Choice” and travels throughout the United States working with school staff, students and parents on the keys of successful implementation.

Diane has worked in urban, rural, Alaska Native, frontier and reservation communities in 48 states. Translating research into practice, she has guided diverse communities in capacity building, community mobilizing, strategic planning and evaluation of prevention initiatives. From 2002-2007 she served as Prevention Coordinator for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention’s Western Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies in the College of Health and Human Sciences at the University of Nevada, Reno. She provided TA and Training services to the state of Montana and school districts in the western region implementing a Grant to Reduce Alcohol Abuse (GRAA) through the U.S. Department of Education. Most recently she was the lead Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator for the MOST of Us Positive Community Norms initiative out of the Montana State University in Bozeman Montana.